- From: Slein, Judith A <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:43:46 -0500
- To: "'Yaron Goland'" <yarong@Exchange.Microsoft.com>, "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Again, I have a problem with the expression "blind" till I hear more from you. But I think the important piece of information the client gets from the Redirect-Ref header is that the resource understands the Apply-To-Redirect-Ref header. So that's why it makes sense to return Redirect-Ref header with the 302, but not with a response to a request that was already using Apply-To-Redirect-Ref. So perhaps you would be happier if we just say this. --Judy -----Original Message----- From: Yaron Goland [mailto:yarong@Exchange.Microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 2:50 AM To: 'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org' Subject: Yaron.Redirect.BlindRedirect The second sentence of the last paragraph of section 6.3 reads: "The Redirect-Ref header informs a reference-aware client that this is not an ordinary HTTP 1.1 redirect, but is a redirect reference resource. " If the purpose of the Redirect-Ref header was solely to inform the client that they were dealing with a redirect resource then the header would be returned on all responses from a redirect resource, even those with a Apply-To-Redirect-Ref header. However the purpose of the Redirect-Ref header is to let redirect aware clients determine that they are dealing with a blindly generated 302. As such I move that the sentence be changed to state: "The Redirect-Ref header informs a redirect aware client that they have received a blind 302 response from a redirect resource." Similarly the main paragraph of section 11.1 currently reads: "The Redirect-Ref header is used in all 302 responses from redirect resources. Its presence informs reference-aware clients that the response is not a plain HTTP/1.1 redirect, but is a response from a redirect reference resource." I move that it be re-written to read: "The Redirect-Ref header is used to mark blind 302 responses from redirect resources."
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